
Millennial Writers Reflect on a Generation’s Despair
The New Yorker Radio Hour
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How to Be Hopeless
When people keep telling you you're not thinking enough about people different than you, or that things are getting better, when they feel really bad, you start to despair. So i decided to talk to us, to ask, why do we feel hopeless, and what do we do with that feeling? One carlos maza, 19 88, to answer my questions, i started with the gui who made that video essay, ow to be hopeless. Carlos grounds the essay in his experience of living through covet so picture carlos in march of 20 20 sitting in a park in new york city, cold, masked up, reading albert camus, the plague. Go back in your
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